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MONTGOMERY, Ala. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is taking on fellow Republicans as he seeks to mend a $700 million hole in the state's frayed $1.8 billion general fund with a tax increase. The state party is urging lawmakers to defy him. Republicans distanced themselves in speeches and newspaper columns. One state senator who's a former U.S. Marine paid for a billboard in Huntsville. "Governor Bentley wants to raise your taxes," it reads. "I will not let that happen. Semper Fi. Senator Bill Holtzclaw." Bentley, 72, joins at least eight Republican governors gambling their careers by bucking anti-tax orthodoxy as the party enjoys its greatest power over state...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is taking on fellow Republicans as he seeks to mend a $700 million hole in the state's frayed $1.8 billion general fund with a tax increase. The state party is urging lawmakers to defy him. Republicans...

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